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A Memorial of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company 


TO’ THE 


Legislature of Maryland 


for the right to charge tolls on passengers carried through the canal, and also to complete 
the power to be a transportation company conferred 


upon it by the State of Delaware 





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Page 2.—List of Officers and Directors. 


Page 3.—Frontispiece. Tablet erected by the Company to commemorate the devoted services of the 


founders and builders of the canal. 
Page 4.—Diagram of Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. 
Page 5.—Diagram of canals and other internal waterways on the North Atlantic Seaboard. 
Page 6.—Proposed Act to amend Charter of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company. 
Pages 7 to 9—Memorial to the Legislature of Maryland. 
Pages 10 to 15.—Extracts from original Charter of December 7, 1799, and from subsequent legislation. 


Page 15.—Act passed February 1, 1877, by the State of Delaware, giving transportation powers to the 


Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company. 


December 12, 1905. 


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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 


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DIRECTORS 


R. DALE BENSON 

Hoop GILPIN 

ANDREW GRAY 

JoHN CADWALADER 
GEORGE HarRISON FISHER 
BERNARD GILPIN 


CHARLES CHAUNCEY 


Secretary and Treasurer 


CoLEMAN L. NICHOLSON 


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Henry Pratr McKEAN 
EMLEN HUTCHINSON 
RICHARD VAUX BUCKLEY 
James LOGAN FISHER 
CHARLES CHAUNCEY SAVAGE 


Josern E. GILLINGHAM 


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TABLET ERECTED BY THE 


Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company 


to commemorate the devoted services of the founders and 


The construction of this canal was 
begun on the 15th of April 1824 by 
Silas E. Weir, the Chairman of the 
first Committee of Works, whose zeal- 
ous and efficient services to the Com- 
pany terminated with his life on the 
14th day of May 1828. He was suc- 
ceeded by Robert M. Lewis under 
whose active supervision the work was 
continued and finished. 

In its progress through the eastern 
level large sections of embankment 
sunk 100 feet below the adjoining sur- 
faee and the bottom of the excavation 
rose 40 feet above its natural posi- 
tion. On the deep cut more than 
375,000 cubic yards of earth slipped 
from the regulated slopes of the sides 
and passed into the chamber of the 
canal. These and many other diffi- 
culties having been overcome, the 
water was introduced on the ath of 
July 1829 and the official accomplish- 
ment of this great national work was 
celebrated on the 17th of October of 
the same year at which time the navi- 
gation was opened. 


builders of the Canal 


This Tablet 
is erected by the Proprietors 
of the 


CHESAPEAKE & DELAWARE CANAL 
to commemorate its completion 


on the 17th of October 1829 
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to stand as a 
testimonial of their gratitude 
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James C. Fisher, President 
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Thomas P. Cope, John K. Kane, 
Robert M. Lewis, Isaac C. Jones, 
Ambrose White and William Platt, 
Directors of the Company. 


Secretary & Treasurer, H. D. Gilpin 
Engineer in Chief, Benjamin Wright 
Engineer Resident, Daniel Livermore 


Superintendent, Caleb Newbold, Jr. 


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Length of Canal 1354 miles 
Width at water line 66 feet 
Width at bottom 36 feet 
Depth of water 10 feet 


Depth of excavation at Summit 76% 
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Extreme width of section at surface 
366 feet 


Excavation from deep cut 3,500,000 
cubic yards 


Length of locks 100 feet 

Width of locks 22 feet 

Length of Summit Bridge 247 feet 
Height above bottom of canal go feet 


Total cost $2,250,000, of which $450, 
000 was paid by United States, 
$100,000 by the State of Pennsyl- 
vania, $50,000 by the State of Mary- 
land, $25,000 by the State of Dela- 
ware, and the residue by citizens of 
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Dela- 


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DIAGRAM OF CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL 


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STATISTICS OF CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL 





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Stock, $1,903,238.00 

Cost of Canal | Ronde2 bb29+0.00f- 2 Se Se ee acs ontacen tases: $4,505,000 

Total number of véssels passed through Canal since its opening............... 708,000 vessels 


Total tonnage of merchandise carried through Canal...............00. seeeeeeees 46,000,000 tons 


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the purpose of cutting and making a canal between the Chesapeake 


Bay and River Delaware or the waters thereof.’’ 


Section I Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Maryland That it shall be lawful from and after the passage of this Act for 
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company to demand and receive as toll 
in respect of each and every passenger carried through the canal in boats 
vessels or barges of any description whether owned by said company or by 
other proprietor or proprietors a sum not exceeding the sum of fifty cents (50c) 


and for children not over twelve years of age one-half the above sum. 


Sect. II And be it further enacted That for the greater dispatch of 
business it shall and may be lawful for the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal 
Company to commute for the charge of tolls on passengers merchandise or any 
kind of commodities or produce with any individual or companies upon such 
terms as may be agreed upon between the parties. 

Sect. III And be it further enacted That from and after the passage 
of this Act the said Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company shall have full 
power and authority to exercise and enjoy transportation powers and for that 
purpose to hold use possess and own steam and sail vessels barges or other 
craft and in addition thereto to hold occupy rent or own all such wharves 
docks stores storehouses and offices as may be necessary for the transaction of a 


transportation business by the said company. 


Sect. 1V That upon the acceptance by the said company of this Act to 
be signified to the Secretary of the State in writing under their corporate seal 


the same shall become a part of their charter. 


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PHILADELPHIA, December 12, 1905. 


Memorial to the Honorable the Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland : 


In granting a charter to the CHESAPEAKE & DELAWARE CanaL Company, December 7, 
1799, the Legislature of Maryland sought, primarily, the benefit to accrue to your state from 
a water highway, affording cheap competitive transportation to the persons and property of 
its citizens. In recognition of this object, the state itself became a stockholder in the 
company to the extent of 1625 shares. For 1000 of these, the state subscribed $50,000, and 
subsequently received 625 shares in stock dividends. On these 1625 shares, which it still 
holds, the State of Maryland, up to 1876, realized in cash dividends from the Canal Company, 
$34,562.50. | 

The high character and reputation of the men then and since identified with the 
building and operation of the canal was, and is, a guarantee that the beneficent purpose of 
this original legislation should be effectively carried out. Many of the best known names in 
your state have appeared on the roll of its officers, directors and stockholders. 

The government of the United States early recognized the strategic advantage of the 
canal as a link in some of the chief waterways of the country between the North and the 
South, and subscribed $450,000 to the capital stock of the Company. The wisdom of this 
action was demonstrated during the Civil War, when the transportation facilities of the railroads 
proved entirely inadequate, and the canal was able to render large and important service to 
the United States government by offering a medium for the carriage of urgently needed 
supplies, troops and munitions of war. 

Actual work on the construction of the main canal was begun on the 15th of April, 
1824. Water was introduced on the ath of July, 1829, and the official accomplishment of 
this great state and national work was celebrated on the 17th of October of the same year, 
at which time the navigation was opened. Thus, the canal has now been in operation 76 
years, and during that time there have been 708,000 passages of vessels through its waters, 
_ representing a magnificent total of 46,000,000 tons of merchandise carried. 

The business of the canal increased until the year 1872, which showed a tonnage of 
1,318,000 tons. Since that time the business has decreased, the tonnage for the fiscal year 
1905 was only 700,000 tons. The revenue has correspondingly declined, as the rate of 
tolls could not be increased to offset the diminished traffic. 


In this connection we cite: 


Tolls Authorized Under Charter, Tolis Imposed Chesapeake & Delaware Canal 
December 7, 1799 Tariff of {905 are 

Wueat, 4c. per bushel. Wueat, tc. per bushel. 

CoaL, 29c. per ton. Coat, 18c. per ton. 

LuMBER, 63c. per 1000 feet. LuMBER, 30c. per 1000 feet. 

Pic Iron, $1 per ton. Pic Iron, 20c. per ton. 


The present low tariff of tolls has naturally inured to the benefit of the public, but 
has aided in a serious decrease in the earning capacity of the canal, so that the Company has 
closed the year just past with a deficit of $2900, and during the last eleven years its earnings 

have not equaled its expenses and the interest on its bonds, the total deficit for that period 
having been $11,687.31. 
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The bonded indebtedness of the Company calls for interest at the rate of five per cent., 
but since the year 1893 the Company has been unable to pay more than four per cent., and, 
as stated, even this reduced amount (which has been accepted by the courtesy of the 
bondholders) has not been fully earned. 

During all these years, the public has benefited largely by the operation of the 
canal; the stockholders since 1876 not at all. This state of things cannot, of course, continue 
indefinitely. Any business, whether controlled by an individual or a corporation, must, at 
least, earn its expenses or in time cease to be operated. 

As the Company has continued to render an important service to the public in the face 
of a decrease in tonnage and the low rate of tolls, which have resulted in an actual deficit 
extending over a period of many years, it naturally feels that it is unjust that it should be 
longer deprived of the right to receive any revenue from a large part of the important 
services it renders. ‘The Company has always believed that it was entitled to charge tolls for 
the transportation of passengers, and that if this right is not specially mentioned in its charter, 
it is, nevertheless, a logical deduction therefrom. It believes that this right can only be 
contested by private, selfish interests, who may desire a monopoly, and who might, otherwise, 
deprive the public of the opportunity for cheap local and through transportation which this 
waterway should assure them. 

A canal is a water turnpike. Its receipts are from tolls. It differs from the ordinary 
road turnpike in that the operation of its gates, and the maintenance of its way, are vastly 
more expensive. It also differs in that tolls are charged not on the vehicle and power, say the 
wagon and horse, as in land pikes, but on the commodities carried through; consequently, if 
part of the load is exempt from tolls while the service rendered by the canal remains the 
same, the tolls received are diminished in exact proportion to the amount so exempted, and 
this may be so great as to reduce the receipts of the canal below the cost of the service 
rendered, not only to the detriment of the canal, but an unjust discrimination against freighters, 
no part of whose cargo is exempt. Now, under our present limitation, this is exactly 
what takes place in the case of all passenger vessels that use the canal. = 

Is it either just or eguztadble that the Canal Company should longer be denied the right 
to make a reasonable toll charge on passenger traffic transported over its waterway? 

The demand for the right to charge a toll on passengers must appeal to the fair minded 
as all the more reasonable, from the fact that the passenger traffic of the chief transportation 
company using the canal frequently realizes for that company a larger net revenue per vessel 
than their vessels simultaneously carrying merchandise on freight. 

The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal shortens the distance between Baltimore and 
Philadelphia, say from 420 miles by the Bay and outside route, fo 110 miles through availing 
of medium of canal route. 

In other words, irrespective of unusual delays always liable to be encountered on the 
outside route, a steamer can cover the distance via canal in 14 hours, and via the outside 
route in not less than 4o hours. 

The stockholders of the Canal Company have received dividends in but eleven of 
the eighty-one years in which their money has been invested, and the holders of its loan have 
now to be contented with four per cent. interest. 

In asking your honorable bodies to grant us the right to charge toll for passengers 
carried through the canal, the Company feels that it is only seeking authority to do that to which 
it is justly entitled, and of which it has been deprived only by an unintentional oversight 
on the part of those who framed the original legislation, and who failed to specifically mention 
this particular feature. . The Company also asks in the bill presented that the State of Mary- 
land grant to it the same transportation powers which have already been granted to the 
Company by the State of Delaware in an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Dela- 
ware, approved February 1, 1877, a copy of which is attached to this Memorial. It is certainly to 
the interest of the State of Maryland to uphold the integrity and usefulness of the canal, in 
which it holds 1625 shares of stock. It is identified with its history and its prominent citizens. 
It is important to the public as affording cheap water-borne transportation facilities for the 

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products of its manufactories and the output of its mines and soil. If maintained and 
fostered now, it will naturally develop with the increasing demands of commerce for water 
transportation, and afford greater facilities in the future than it does at present. 

We think it is also the duty of the State to preserve this canal, which is one of its 
oldest wards : 

First. To afford its own citizens the advantages sought in previous legislation, which 
are being crippled by denying to the canal its natural right to obtain a revenue from all that 
it carries. 

Second. In the interest of the whole country to keep open, and in efficient condition 
for service, this important link between the waterways of the North and South. 

We respectfully submit, herewith, to your honorable bodies a draft of the legislation 
desired, and ask for it your most careful consideration and ultimate affirmative action. 


THE CHESAPEAKE & DELAWARE CANAL COMPANY, 
By Frank L. Neatu, President. 
Coteman L. Nicuotson, Secretary. 


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EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS 


RELATIVE TO THE 


Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company 


LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND 
I. LAWS OF MARYLAND 


I. Act passeD 7 DECEMBER, 1799. ReEcoRDED Lip. I. G. 
NG 42 FOL, 254. 





An Act to incorporate a Company for the purpose of cutting and making a Canal between the 
River Delaware and the Chesapeake Bay. 


Wuereas, The opening of the communication between the bay of Chesapeake and the 
river Delaware by means of a canal will be attended with very beneficial effects to those 
parts of the State of Maryland that lie on the bay of Chesapeake and on the waters that 
empty themselves into the said bay as also to the agricultural interest thereof in general 
and many persons are willing to subscribe large sums of money to effect so useful a work 
and it being just and proper that they their heirs and assigns should be empowered to 
receive reasonable tolls forever as a compensation for the money advanced by them in 
carrying the work into execution and the risque they incur. 

Sect. II. Be zt enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland That it shall be lawful 
to open books for receiving and entering subscriptions to the amount of five hundred 
thousand dollars in shares of two hundred dollars each share for the cutting said canal and 
perfecting the navigation thereof under the management of Tobias Rudolph and William 
Alexander at Elkton in Cecil County Dr. William Matthews and Samuel Davis at the 
head of Sassafras in Kent County Richard Tilghman and William Barroll at Chester- 
town in Kent County Richard Tilghman Earle and James Clayland, junior at Centre- 
ville in Queen Ann’s County and James Earle, junior and Owen Kennard at Easton 
in Talbot County and under the management of such persons and at such places in Dela- 
ware and Pennsylvania as shall be appointed by acts of the Legislature of those states that 
the said books shall be opened on the first day of March eighteen hundred and shall con- 
tinue open for this purpose until the first day of March eighteen hundred and one and on 
the first day of May thereafter there shall be a general meeting of the subscribers at the 
town of Wilmington in the state of Delaware of which meeting notice shall be given by 
the said managers or any four of them in some of the Maryland Delaware and Pennsylvania 
newspapers at least thirty days before the said meeting Provided That if the same time of 
receiving subscriptions and of meeting shall not be appointed by all the said states then 
there shall be a meeting of the subscribers at the time by them appointed at the place 
aforesaid notice whereof to be given as aforesaid and the subscriptions made at the times 
and places appointed by the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania shall then be received 
and such meeting may and shall be continued from day to day till the business is finished 
and the acting managers at the time and place aforesaid shall lay before such of the sub- 
scribers as shall meet according to the said notice the books by them respectively kept 
containing the state of the said subscriptions and if one half of the capital sum aforesaid 
should upon examination appear not to have been subscribed then the said managers at 
the said meeting are empowered to take and receive subscriptions to make up the deficiency 
and a just and true list of all the subscribers with the sums subscribed by each shall be 
made out and returned by the said managers or any four or more of them under their 
hands to the General Court for the eastern and western shores of Maryland and the 
Supreme Courts of Delaware and Pennsylvania to be there kept and recorded and in case 
more than five hundred thousand dollars shall be subscribed then the same shall be reduced 
to that sum by the said managers or a majority of them by beginning at and striking 
off a share from the largest subscription or subscriptions and continuing to strike off a 
share from all subscriptions under the largest and above one share until the sum is reduced 
to the capital of five hundred thousand dollars or until a share is taken from all subscrip- 
tions above one share and lots shall be drawn between subscribers of equal sums to 
determine the numbers in which such subscribers shall stand on a list to be made for 
striking off as aforesaid and if the sum subscribed still exceeds the capital aforesaid then to 
strike off by the same rule until the sum subscribed is reduced to the capital aforesaid or all 
the subscriptions are reduced to one share and if there still be an excess then lots to be 
drawn to determine the subscribers who are to be excluded to reduce the subscriptions to 


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Maryland. 7 Dec. 1799. 


Preamble, 


General benefit of a canal 


induces many to subscribe, 


who are entitled to a compen- 
sation. 


Books may be opened for sub- 
scriptions to amount of $500,000, 
in shares of $200 each, under 
management of Tobias 
Rudolph and others, 


on ist March, 1800, to remain 
open one year; and on Ist May 
1801 there shall be a general 
meeting of the subscribers, at 
Wilmington ; 


before which, the managers 
shall lay the subscription books 


and record the names of sub- 
scribers in Maryland, Dela- 
ware and Pennsylvania ; 


but if more than 500,000 dollars 
be subscribed, shares shall be 
struck off, 





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the capital aforesaid which striking off shall be certified in the list aforesaid and no person 
shall subscribe less than one whole share Provided That unless two hundred and fifty 
thousand dollars of said capital shall be subscribed as aforesaid all subscriptions made in 
consequence of this act shall be void and in case two hundred and fifty thousand dollars 
and less than the whole of said capital shall be subscribed as aforesaid then the president 
and directors appointed as herein after mentioned are hereby empowered and directed to 
take and receive the subscriptions which shall be first offered in whole shares as aforesaid 
until the deficiency shall be made up a certificate of which additional subscriptions shall be 
made under the hands of a majority of them and returned to and recorded in the. Courts 
herein before mentioned. 

Sect. III. And be tt enacted That in case one-half of the said capital or a greater sum 
shall be subscribed as aforesaid the said subscribers and their heirs and assigns from the 
time of their said first meeting shall be and are hereby declared to be incorporated by the 
name of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company and may have perpetual succession 
and sue and be sued as such and such of the said subscribers as shall be present at the said 
meeting or a majority of them are hereby empowered and required to elect a president and 
nine directors for conducting directing and completing said canal and managing the business 
of the said company for and during such time not exceeding five years as the said 
subscribers or a majority of them shall think proper and every subscriber shall be allowed 
one vote for every share not exceeding five shares and one vote for every three shares 
above ten held by him or her in the said company and any stockholder by writing under 
his or her hand and seal executed in the presence of two witnesses may depute any other 
member or stockholder to vote and act as his or her proxy at any general meeting. 

Sect. IV. Axd be it enacted That the said president and directors so elected and 
their successors or a majority of them assembled shall have full power and authority to 
agree with any person or persons on behalf of the said company to cut such canals and 
erect such locks and perform such other works as they shall judge necessary for opening 
improving and extending the navigation between the bay of Chesapeake and the river Dela- 
ware and carrying on the same from place to place and from time to time and upon such 
terms and in such manner as they shall think fit and out of the money arising from the 
subscriptions and the tolls and other aids herein after given to pay for the same and to 
repair and keep in order the said canals locks and other works necessary thereto and to 
defray all incidental charges and also to appoint a treasurer clerk and such other officers 
toll-gatherers managers and servants as they shall judge requisite and to agree for and 
settle their respective wages or allowances and settle pass and sign their accounts and also 
to make and establish rules of proceeding and to transact all the other business and 
concerns of the said company in and during the intervals between the general meetings of 
the same and they shall be allowed as a satisfaction for their trouble therein such sum of 
money as shall by a general meeting of the subscribers be determined Provided always 
that the treasurer shall give bond in such penalty and with such security as the said Presi- 
dent and directors or a majority of them shall direct for the true and faithful discharge of 
the trust reposed in him and that the allowance to be made to him for his services shall not 
exceed five dollars in the hundred for the disbursements by him made and that no officer in 
the said company shall have any vote in the settlement of passing his own account. 

Sect. V. And be it enacted That the said president and directors and their successors 
or a majority of them shall have full power and authority from time to time as money shall 
be wanted to make and sign orders for that purpose and direct at what time and in what pro- 
portion the proprietors shall advance and pay the sums subscribed which orders shall be 
advertised at least three months in some of the Maryland Delaware and Pennsylvania news- 
papers and they are hereby authorized and empowered to demand and receive of the several 
proprietors from time to time the sums of money so ordered to be advanced for carrying on 
and executing or repairing or keeping in order the said works until the sum subscribed 
shall be fully paid and to order the said sums to be deposited in the hands of the treasurer 
to be by him disbursed and paid out as the president and directors or a majority of them 
shall order and direct and if any of the said proprietors shall refuse or neglect to pay their 
said proportions within one month after the time of payment so ordered and advertised as 
aforesaid the said president and directors or a majority of them may sell at auction and con- 
vey to the purchaser the share or shares of such proprietor so refusing or neglecting pay- 
ment giving at least three months notice of the sale in some of the Maryland Delaware and 
Pennsylvania newspapers and after retaining the sum due and charges of sale out of the 
money produced thereby they shall refund and pay the overplus if any to the former owner 
and if such sale shall not produce’ the full sum ordered and directed to be advanced as 
aforesaid with the incidental charges the said president and directors or a majority of them 
may in the name of the company sue for and recover the balance by action of debt or on 
the case and the said purchaser or purchasers shall be subject to the same rules and regula- 
tion as if the said sale and conveyance’ had been made by the original proprietor Provided 
That in the case of the death of any stockholder the neglect or refusal of his executor 
administrator or legatee to make the payment that may be required as aforesaid shall not 
have the effect to forfeit immediately the said share or shares held by the said stockholder 


(11) 


Maryland. 7 Dec. 1799. 





No one shall subscribe less than 
one share—and unless $250,000 
are capes, the whole is 
void, 


If there be subscribers suffi- 
cient, they are incorporated 
into the Chesapeake and Del- 
aware Canal Company, with 
corporate powers—to choose a 
president and nine directors 
for not more than five years 


by a vote of each subscriber 
in person or by proxy duly 
appointed. 


The president and directors to 
employ persons to execute a 
canal. 


and to keep it in order— 
appoint proper officers, 


transact all necessary business, 


and take security from the 
treasurer. 


They shall also call for the 
instalments of the subscribers 


on giving due notice 


and if they refuse to pay them 
for one month 


they may sell their shares ' 


except in the case of executors, 
&c. where they shall allow 
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in his life time but the said executor administrator or legatee shall have one whole year 
next after the day of the said death to make the payments required. 

Sect. VI. And to continue the succession of the said president and directors and to 
keep up the same number Ze z¢ enacted That from time to time upon the expiration of the 
said term for which the said president and directors were appointed the proprietors of the 
said company at the next general meeting shall either continue the said president and 
directors.or any of them or choose others in their stead and in case of the death removal 
resignation or incapacity of the president or any of the said directors may and shall in 
manner aforesaid elect any other person or persons to be president and directors in the 
room of him or them so dying removing or resigning or becoming incapable and may at 
any of their general meetings remove the president or any of the directors and appoint 
others for and during the remainder of the term for which such person or persons were 
at first to have acted. . 

Sect. VII. <Axd be it enacted That every president and director before he acts as 
such shall take an oath or affirmation for the due execution of his office. 

Sect. VIII]. * * * after leaving in the hands of the treasurer such sum as the 
proprietors or a majority of them shall judge necessary for repairs and contingent charges 
an equal dividend of all the net profits arising from the tolls hereby granted shall be 
ordered and made to and among all the proprietors of the said company in proportion to 
their several shares Provided nevertheless That whenever the net profits arising from said 
tolls shall exceed thirty per cent. the said president and directors shall account annually to 
and with the states of Maryland and Delaware for the surplus and the same shall be equally 
divided between the said states * * * . 

Sect. 1X. And be tt enacted That for and in consideration of the expenses the said 
stockholders will be at not only in cutting the said canal and other works for opening the 
said navigation but in maintaining and keeping the same in repair the said canal and works 
with all their profits under the limitations aforesaid shall be and the same are hereby vested 
in the said corporation forever and that it shall and may be lawful for the said president and 
directors after the said canal shall be made navigable to demand and receive the following 
tolls at such place or places in the canal as they may hereafter direct Provided That the 
whole toll received shall not amount to more than the rates fixed by this act thar zs to say 
Every pipe of wine or French brandy containing more than one hundred and twenty 
gallons one dollar and twenty-five cents Every hogshead of rum or other spirits one dollar 
Every hogshead of tobacco one dollar Every hogshead of beer cider rice or molasses 
seventy-five cents Every barrel twenty-five cents and all other casks or kegs in proportion 
according to the quantity and quality of their contents for casks of linseed oil same as spirits 
Every bushel of wheat peas beans or flaxseed four cents Every bushel of Indian corn 
or other grain or salt two cents Every barrel of pork beef or fish thirty cents Every 
barrel of flour twenty cents Every ton of hemp flax pot-ash bar or manufactured iron 
two dollars Every ton of pig iron or castings one dollar Every ton of copper lead or other 
ore other than iron ore one dollar Every ton of stone or iron ore fifty cents Every chal- 
dron of coal thirty-seven cents Every hundred pipe or hogshead staves or pipe or 
hogshead heading ten cents Every hundred barrel staves or barrel heading six cents 
Every thousand shingles two feet long or more seventy-five cents Every thousand 
shingles less than two feet long fifty cents Every hundred cubic feet of plank or scant- 
ling seventy-five cents Every hundred cubic feet of other timber forty cents Every 
gross hundred weight of all other commodities or packages ten cents and for all other 
commodities the same proportion agreeable to the articles herein enumerated and every 
boat or vessel which has not commodities on board to pay the sum of four dollars 
shall pay so much as with the commodities on board will yield the sum aforesaid and 
every empty boat or vessel four dollars except an empty boat or vessel returning whose 
load has already paid the tolls affixed in which case she shall repass toll free Provided 
Such boat or vessel shall return within fourteen days after paying said tolls. (Present 
rates on grain, iron coal etc) 

Sect. X. And be it enacted That in case of refusal or neglect to pay the toll at the 
time of offering to pass through the said canal and previous to the vessel’s passing through 
the same collectors of the said tolls may lawfully refuse passage to such vessel and if any 
vessel shall pass without paying the said toll then the said collectors may seize such vessel 
wherever found and sell the same at auction for ready money which so far as is necessary 
shall be applied towards paying said tolls and all expenses of seizure and sale and the 
balance if any shall be paid to the owner and the person having the direction of such vessel 
shall be liable for such toll if the same is not paid by the sale of such vessel as aforesaid 
Provided Vhat the said proprietors or a majority of them holding at least five hundred 
shares shall have full power and authority at any general meeting to lessen the said tolls or 
any of them Provided also That the same rate of tolls shall be paid on articles passing from 
Chesapeake to Delaware as upon those paid from Delaware to Chesapeake. 

Sect. XI. And be it enacted That the said canal and the works to be erected thereon 
in virtue of this act when completed shall forever thereafter be esteemed and taken to be 
navigable as a public highway free for the transportation of all goods commodities or pro- 

(12) 


Maryland. 7 Dec. 1799. 





The proprietors may elect new 
president and directors when 
their time has expired, 


or may remove them at any 
general meeting. 


The President and Directors 
may declare dividends, 


but when these dividends 
exceed 30 per cent. the surplus 
shall be divided between 
Delaware and Maryland. 


The President and Directors 
are authorized to demand and 
receive certain tolls not 
exceeding a fixed amount 

on wine, 


oil, 


pork, 
and various other articles, 


and on all empty boats. 


And if these tolls are not paid 
the vessel may be refused a 
passage, 


or be seized and sold. 


These tolls may be lessened 
by a general meeting, 


and shall always be the same 
in whichever direction a 
vessel passes. 


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duce whatsoever on payment of the toll imposed by this act and no toll or tax whatever for 
the use of the water of the said canal and the works thereon erected shall at any time 
hereafter be imposed by all or either of the said states. 

Sect. XII. And whereas it is necessary for the making the said canal and supplying 
the same with water that provision should be made for condemning a quantity of land for 
these purposes Le zt enacted That it shall and may be lawful for the said president and 
directors or a majority of them to purchase from the owners thereof any land through 
which the said canal is intended to pass or through which it may be necessary to supply 
water to the same and in case of disagreement or in case the owner thereof shall be a feme 
covert under age non compos or out of the state on application to any two justices of the 
county in which such land shall lie the said justices shall issue their warrant under their 
hands to the sheriff of their county to summon a jury of eighteen inhabitants of his county 
of property and reputation not related to the parties nor in any manner interested to meet 
on the land to be valued at a day to be expressed in the warrant not less than ten nor more 
than twenty days thereafter and the sheriff upon receiving the said warrant shall forthwith 
summon the said jury and when met shall administer an oath or affirmation as the case may 
require to every juryman that shall appear that he will faithfully and impartially value the 
land and all damages the owner thereof shall sustain by the cutting the canal through the 
said land according to the best of his skill and judgment and that in such valuation he will 
not favour any person nor any person aggrieve for hatred malice or ill-will and the inquisi- 
tion thereupon taken shall be signed by the sheriff and some twelve or more of the jury 
and returned by the sheriff to the clerk of his county to be by him recorded and upon every 
such valuation the jury are hereby directed to describe and ascertain the bounds of the land 
by them valued and their valuation shall be conclusive on all persons and shall be paid by 
the said president and directors to the owner of the land or his legal representative before 
they shall take possession of said land and on the payment thereof the said company shall 
be seized in fee of said land as if conveyed by the owner to them and their successors in fee 
by legal conveyance Provided nevertheless That if any farther damage shall arise to any 
proprietor of land in consequence of opening such canal or in erecting such works 
than had been before considered and valued it shall and may be lawful for such proprietor 
as often as any such new damage shall happen by application to and warrant from any two 
justices of the county where the lands lie to have such further damage valued by a jury in 
like manner and to receive and recover the same of the said president and directors but 
nothing herein shall be construed or taken to entitle the proprietor of any such land to 
recover compensation for any damages which may happen to any mills forges or other 
works or improvements which shall be begun or erected by such proprietor after such 
valuation unless the same damage is wilfully or maliciously done by the said president and 
directors or by some person by their authority. 

Sect. XIII. And be it enacted That the said president and directors or a majority of 
them are hereby authorized to agree with the proprietors for the purchase of a quantity of 
land not exceeding one acre at or near each of the said places of receipt of tolls aforesaid 
for the purpose of erecting necessary buildings and in case of disagreement or any of the 
disabilities aforesaid or the proprietor being out of the state then such land may be valued 
condemned and paid for as aforesaid for the purpose aforesaid and the said company shall 
upon payment of the valuation of the said land be seized thereof in fee simple as aforesaid. 

Sect. XIV. And be it enacted That it shall and may be lawful for every of the said 
proprietors to transfer his share or shares by deed executed before two witnesses and 
registered after proof of the execution thereof in the said company’s books and not other- 
wise except by devise which devise shall also be exhibited to the president and directors 
and registered in the said company’s books before the devise or devises shall be entitled to 
draw any part of the profits from the said tolls Provided That no transfer whatsoever shall 
be made except for one or more whole share or shares and not for part of such shares and 
that no share shall at any time be sold conveyed transferred or held in trust for the use and 
benefit or in the name of another whereby the said president and directors or proprietors of 
the said company or any of them shall or may be challenged or made to answer concerning 
any such trust but that every person appearing as aforesaid to be proprietor shall as to the 
others of the said company be to every intent taken absolutely as such but as between any 
trustee and the person for whose benefit any trust shall be created the common remedy 
may be pursued. 

Sect. XV. And be it enacted That if the said capital and the other aids already 
granted by this act shall prove insufficient it shall and may be lawful for the said company 
from time to time to increase the said capital by the addition of so many more whole shares 
as shall be judged necessary by the said proprietors or a majority of them holding at least 
five hundred shares present at any general meeting of the said company and the said 
president and directors or a majority of them are hereby empowered and required after 
giving at least one month’s previous notice thereof in some of the Maryland Delaware and 
Pennsylvania newspapers to open books at such place or places as shall be directed by said 
meeting for receiving and entering such additional subscriptions in which the proprietors 
of the said company for the time being shall and are hereby declared to have the preference 


. (13) 


Maryland. 7 Dee. 1799. 





The President and Directors 
may purchase land for the 
canal, but in case of disagree- 
ment, or the owner being 
incapable to sell or absent, 
they may apply to two justices, 
who shall have an inquest 
summoned 


to value the land and assess 
the damages, 


whose inquisition on being 
recorded, shall be final, and 
on paying the sum awarded, 
the company shall hold the 
lands in fee. 


And if further damage occur, 
it shall be valued in like 
manner, 


but no damages shall be 
allowed for works erected 
since the valuation. 


The President and Directors 
may purchase or condemn in 
the said form an acre for 
each toll house. 


The proprietors may transfer 
their share by dee 


or devise registered in the 
company’s books. 


But not less than a whole 
share shall be transferred, 
nor shall it be held in trust 
so as to make the company 
liable to any other than the 
trustee. 


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on due notice, 


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of all others for the first thirty days after the said books shall be opened as aforesaid of 
taking and subscribing for so many whole shares as any of them shall choose and the said 
president and directors are hereby required to observe in all other respects the same rules 
therein as are by this act prescribed for receiving and adjusting the first subscriptions and 
in like manner to return under the hands of any four or more of them an exact list of such 
additional subscribers with the sums by them respectively subscribed into the General 
Courts as aforesaid to be there recorded and all proprietors of such additional shares shall 
be and they are hereby declared to be from thenceforward incorporated into the said 
. company. 

Sect. XVI. And be it enacted That if the stockholders or the president and directors 
aforesaid should neglect or omit or be by an accident prevented from performing any act or 
thing on the particular day on which it shall be directed by this act to be done and per- 

formed such neglect or omission shall not be construed or taken in any manner to destroy 
or invalidate this charter but the said act may be done at the next convenient day. 


Sect. XVII. <Anxd be tt enacted That whenever said canal shall cross any public road 
it shall be the duty of said company at the proper expense of the same to make and keep 
good and sufficient bridges across said canal so as to prevent any inconveniences in the 
usage of said road or roads by reason of said canal crossing the same. 


Sect. XVIII. Provided That this law shall be of no force or effect until a law be 
passed by the state of Delaware authorizing the cutting the canal aforesaid and until a law 
shall be passed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania declaring the river Susquehanna to be a 

i highway and authorizing individuals or bodies corporate to remove obstructions therein at 
a period not exceeding three years from the first day of March eighteen hundred, 


I. 2. Act pAasseD 18 DECEMBER, 1812. 


Chapter eighty-four. 


A Supplement to the Act, entitled,“ An Act to incorporate a Company for the purpose of 
cutting and making a Canal between the River Delaware and Chesapeake Bay.” 


WHEREAS during the time of war against the United States of America the comple- 
‘tion of the work of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal would be greatly beneficial to 
‘the United States by forming a great link of an inland navigation of six or seven hundred 
miles and thereby establish a perfectly safe easy and rapid transportation of our armies and 
the munitions of war through the interior of the country and which would ever tend to 
operate as a cement to the union between the states And whereas the prosperity and the 
-agricultural interest of the state of Maryland the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the 
‘Delaware state are more deeply interested than their sister states in the useful work of 
' opening a communication between the Chesapeake bay and the river Delaware by means 
of the said Chesapeake and Delaware canal Therefore in order to enable the president and 
directors of the said canal to prosecute and finish the important work of the said Chesa- 

_ peake and Delaware Canal— 

Sect. I. Be tt enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland That if the United States 
shall subscribe seven hundred and fifty shares the commonwealth of Pennsylvania three 
hundred and seventy-five shares the state of Delaware one hundred shares in the Chesa- 
peake and Delaware Canal Company in such case the treasurer of the Western Shore be 

and is hereby authorized and directed to subscribe in behalf of this state two hundred and 

fifty shares in said company. And the money necessary to be paid in consequence of such 
subscription shall be paid by this state and the treasurer of the Western Shore for the time 
being shall have a right to vote for president and directors of said company according to 
such number of shares in person or by proxy appointed by him and the said treasurer shall 
receive upon the said stock the proportion of the tolls which shall from time to time be due 
to the state for the shares aforesaid. 


(14) 


Maryland. 7 Dec. 1799. 





on which the old stockholders 
shall have a preference for 
30 days, 


in other respects the same 
rules are to be observed as 
in receiving the first sub- 
scriptions. 


But if any act be not done on 
the day appointed the charter 
shall not be affected. 


Bridges shall be made where 
the canal crosses public roads, 


In order to give this law effect, 
a certain law must be passed 
by the state of Pennsylvania, 


Maryland. 18 Dec. 1812, 





\ As the Chesapeake and 


Delaware Canal would not 
only be greatly beneficial to 
the Union, 


but especially so to Maryland, 
Delaware and Pennsylvania, 


if the U. States subscribe 

750 shares, Pennsylvania 375, 
and Delaware 100 to its stock, 
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Western Shore of Maryland is 
to subscribe 250 shares in the 
said company, and shall be 
entitled to vote and receive 
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Act passed March 14, 1829. (Copy of Maryland Bill, No. 180, deposited in and 
belonging to the office of the Court of Appeals for the Western Shore of Maryland.) 


An additional supplement to an Act, entitled, “An Act to iucorporate a company for the 
purpose of making and cutting a Canal between the River Delaware and the Chesapeake 
Bay.” 


Sect. III. And be it enacted, That for securing the more convenient and safe navi- 
gation of Broad and Back Creeks into which the said canal enters, it shall and may be 
lawful for the said President and Directors to enact from time to time such rules and regu- 
lations for the government of vessels navigating the same as may by them be judged 
necessary and proper for the purposes aforesaid, and to enforce conformity thereto in the 
manner herein before specified, 


Law passed by the State of Delaware giving transportation powers to the Chesapeake 
and Delaware Canal Company, which the present amendment is intended to complete by 
securing the sanction of the State of Maryland, 


Sect. I. Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of 
Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each branch concurring therein) That 
from and after the passage of this act the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company shall 
have full power and authority to exercise and enjoy transportation powers, and for that 
purpose to hold use possess and own steam and sail vessels barges and other craft and in 
addition thereto to hold occupy rent or own all such wharves docks stores storehouses and 
offices as may be necessary for the transaction of a transportation business by the said 
Company. 


Passed at Dover, February 1, 1877. 


(15) 





Maryland. 14 March 1829. 





The President and Directors 
may make rules for the 
government of vessels navi- 
gating the cana!, and enforce 
conformity thereto, 


Delaware, 1 February 1877. 





Granting transportation pow- 
ers to the Canal Company by 
the State of Delaware. 


LIBRE RY 


OF THE 
meeEPerry 23 $2 TERI 


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